Patents by Inventor Trevor William McDiarmid

Trevor William McDiarmid has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Generating a local copy of a virtualized application package from a local installation
    Patent number: 9081846
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating a local copy of a virtualized application package from a local installation. An empty copy of the virtualized application package is generated from a skeleton file. The skeleton file contains a hash value computed from each data block in the virtualized application package. The component files of the application are retrieved from a virtual file system representation of the location installation of the application, and each component file is divided into one or more blocks of data. A hash value is computed for each block of data and the skeleton file is searched for a hash value corresponding to a data block of the virtualized application file that matches the hash value computed for each block of data. If a match is found, the block of data is copied to the corresponding data block of the empty copy of the virtualized application package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Trevor William McDiarmid, Gurashish Singh Brar
  • Virtualized application image patching
    Patent number: 8631397
    Abstract: Virtual applications are automatically kept up to date with the current version of a virtual application. Instead of the client having to obtain the entire version of the current virtual application, the client obtains the portions of the current virtual application that are changed from its version of the virtual application. After obtaining the changes needed to update its version of the virtual application, the client integrates those changes into its version of the virtual application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gurashish Singh Brar, Joe Keng Yap, Trevor William McDiarmid
  • Generating a Local Copy of a Virtualized Application Package from a Local Installation
    Publication number: 20140007081
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating a local copy of a virtualized application package from a local installation. An empty copy of the virtualized application package is generated from a skeleton file. The skeleton file contains a hash value computed from each data block in the virtualized application package. The component files of the application are retrieved from a virtual file system representation of the location installation of the application, and each component file is divided into one or more blocks of data. A hash value is computed for each block of data and the skeleton file is searched for a hash value corresponding to a data block of the virtualized application file that matches the hash value computed for each block of data. If a match is found, the block of data is copied to the corresponding data block of the empty copy of the virtualized application package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Trevor William McDiarmid, Gurashish Singh Brar
  • Generating a local copy of a virtualized application package from a local installation
    Patent number: 8533151
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating a local copy of a virtualized application package from a local installation. An empty copy of the virtualized application package is generated from a skeleton file. The skeleton file contains a hash value computed from each data block in the virtualized application package. The component files of the application are retrieved from a virtual file system representation of the location installation of the application, and each component file is divided into one or more blocks of data. A hash value is computed for each block of data and the skeleton file is searched for a hash value corresponding to a data block of the virtualized application file that matches the hash value computed for each block of data. If a match is found, the block of data is copied to the corresponding data block of the empty copy of the virtualized application package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Trevor William McDiarmid, Gurashish Singh Brar
  • GENERATING A LOCAL COPY OF A VIRTUALIZED APPLICATION PACKAGE FROM A LOCAL INSTALLATION
    Publication number: 20100306270
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating a local copy of a virtualized application package from a local installation. An empty copy of the virtualized application package is generated from a skeleton file. The skeleton file contains a hash value computed from each data block in the virtualized application package. The component files of the application are retrieved from a virtual file system representation of the location installation of the application, and each component file is divided into one or more blocks of data. A hash value is computed for each block of data and the skeleton file is searched for a hash value corresponding to a data block of the virtualized application file that matches the hash value computed for each block of data. If a match is found, the block of data is copied to the corresponding data block of the empty copy of the virtualized application package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Trevor William McDiarmid, Gurashish Singh Brar
  • VIRTUALIZED APPLICATION IMAGE PATCHING
    Publication number: 20090249324
    Abstract: Virtual applications are automatically kept up to date with the current version of a virtual application. Instead of the client having to obtain the entire version of the current virtual application, the client obtains the portions of the current virtual application that are changed from its version of the virtual application. After obtaining the changes needed to update its version of the virtual application, the client integrates those changes into its version of the virtual application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gurashish Singh Brar, Joe Keng Yap, Trevor William McDiarmid